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COMBINED SEAT AND BED.

No. 362,016. PatentedApr. 26, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL XV. KNOTT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LEWISA. BROXVN, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED SEAT AND BED..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,016, dated April26, 1887.

Application filed June 7, 1886. Serial No. 201.34 (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL XV. Know, of the city of St. Louis, in theState of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Im- 5provement in Combined Seats and Beds, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accom- ,panyingdrawings, forming part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is aperspective view illustrating my improvement, showing it in the form ofa seat. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section taken on line 2 2,Fig. 1. Fig.3 is an enlarged side View, of the coupling. Figs. 4 and r 55 illustrate modified forms of securing the upper part of the seat tothe ends or arms of the seat. Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail viewillustrating one form of joint used in the arms of the seat. Fig. 9 is asection, and Fig. 10 is a side view, of the coupling or elbow of thejoint shown in Fig. 6. Fig. 7 illustrates the seat placed upon rockers.Fig. 8 is an end View of the device in the form-of a' seat. Fig. 11 isan end view showing the chair thrown into position for use as a bed.

My invention relates to an improved combined seat and bed; and myinvention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described,and pointed out in the claims.

0 Referring to the drawings, A represents the seat proper, and B theends of the seat. The seat is composed of rounds or strips 0, united bywires D, twisted around them in the manner shown in Fig. 1, or in anyequivalent manner. I prefer to make the arms or ends B of gas-pipe, butdo not confine myself to this material, E being the legs, F thearm-rests, G the connecting-rods beneath the arm-rests, and H extensionsof the back legs, to which the upper part of the seat is secured,preferably by the following means:

I is a bracket at each end of the seat, having a number of sockets, J,in which fit the upper rounds or cleats, C, of the seat. One

5 of the rounds G entering the coupling (pref erably the center one)enters also an opening or socket, L, made in an elbow on the upper endof the extensions H of the legs. The round 0 entering these sockets ispreferably screwthreaded at its ends, and the sockets likewisescrew-threaded, so that the parts will be held together. The elbows Mare preferably provided with enlargements or flanges N, to form a largeor extended bearing for the brackets I. This manner of securing theupper round of the seat to the extension allows them to be placed at aninclination best adapted as a headrest, and permits these parts to comeinto a horizontal position when the device is used as a bed, ashereinafter described. 6:)

Figs. 4. and 5 illustrate the manner of securing one bar or cleat G tothe. rounds H,which consists of a clip, 1?, into which the cleat O isinserted and held by screws or bolts Q. The rounds H are hinged to thelegs E, as shown 5 at 0, Figs. 1, 7, 8, and 11.

The arm-rests F are secured, to the front legs, E, by a coupling, R,elbows S, and arms or rods T. The arms T are preferably pro vided withright and left threads thatscrew,

respectively, into the coupling R and elbows S, and which may be (byturning them back ward) removed to disconnect the arm-rests from thelegs for the purpose of forming the seat into a bed, as shown in Fig.11. \Vhen thus disconnected, theeXtensionsHare brought down into linewith the rounds or bars G, as shown in Fig. 11, and the arm-restsF,having sleeves F,fitting loosely on the extensions H, slide out towardthe outer ends thereof,and are turned down, as shown in Fig. 11, to restupon the ground and support the extensions H. \Vhen the extensions H areturned down, the seat A is brought into a horizontal position, and theslack is taken up through means of the upper ends of the extensions Hretreating from the forward edge of the seat, where the bars or cleats Care secured to a bar or round, Y, connecting the legs E, by beingsocured to the coupling R. Thus the seat can go bequickly andconveniently changed into theposition to form a bed, and vice versa.

As a modification of the right and left screws on the arms T, I haveshown pins or projectionsVon the arms that enterinclined grooves 5 WV inthe couplings and elbows, respectively. (See Figs. 6, 9, and 10.)

Still other forms of connection can be used, if desired.

In Fig. 7 the legs E are shown mounted roo upon rockers X by thefollowing means: eare yokes pivoted to the rockers by pins or bolts e. eare projections extending upward from yokes e, which are received bysockets in the ends of the chair-legs when the chair is placed on therockers to form a rocking-chair. The separate wires of the seat and backare connected together by separate links or rings D, through which theWiresare passed in such a manner as that the said links or rings extendlongitudinally with the seat and back and transversely to wires, theobject being to allow the seat to assume a proper position with relationto the vertical and horizontal parts and allow it to fold neatly.

I am aware that the slats of both seat and back of a settee have beenconnected together by means of wires, around each wire between theadjacent slats there being placed spiral springs. I am also aware thatthe slats of both seat and back of a chair have been interwoven withthin flexible metallic strips. I therefore lay no claim to aflexibleseatand back,broadly, the slats of which are connected by means of wires;nor do I claim, broadly, a seat having a flexible seat proper and backwhich is so constructed that it can be converted into a bed, the backbeing hinged to the seat; nor' I claim as my invention- 1. Incombination with a supporting-frame, a flexible seat and back connectedthereto,and consisting of rounds or strips united by separate wires forseat and back, respectively, the wires of seat and back being connected,links or rings D, separate from said wires and in a position transversethereto, constituting the connections, substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

2. In combination with the front and back legs, extensions H, hinged tothe back legs, arm-rests F, having sleeves F fitting on the extensions,whereby they are loosely connected with and are adapted to slide andturn upon said extensions, detachable connections T between thearm-rests and front legs, and a flexible seat and back having suitablemeans for connecting them to the front legs and backextensions,substantially as set forth.

'3. In combination with the flexible seat and back, front and back legs,extensions hinged to the back legs, and couplings for securing the uppercleats of the back to the extensions, consisting of brackets on theextensions provided with sockets for the elcats,substantially as setforth.

SAMUEL WV. KNOTT.

In presence of L. A. BROWN, GEO. H. KNIGHT.

